Lamentations 2:14

"What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?"

Key Reflection

This passage speaks to the profound devastation and loss experienced by Jerusalem. The prophet struggles to find appropriate metaphors to comfort Zion, highlighting the magnitude of the city's suffering. The comparison to a breach as vast as the sea underscores the immense extent of the calamity, suggesting that healing such wounds would be extraordinarily difficult.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee -The Septuagint and Vulgate give the true meaning, “stupidity” (seeJeremiah 23:13note). To turn away thy captivity -The right sense is, “They have not disclosed to thee thy sins, that so thou mightest repent, and I might have turned away thy captivity.” Burdens -Applied contemptuously to predictions which proved “false” or “empty,” i. e. failed of accomplishment. On the deduction to be drawn from this, seeJeremiah 28:9. Causes of banishment -The result of the teaching of the false prophets would be that God would “drive out” the Jews from their land. Some render the words “false ...

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